Menendez Calls For Investigation Of Target Breach

A customer uses the credit card scanner at a Target store (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

JERSEY CITY, N.J. (CBSNewYork/AP) — U.S. Sen. Robert Menendez wants the federal government to hold companies accountable when their customers’ financial information is stolen.

Speaking at a Target store Thursday in Jersey City, Menendez said he wants to make sure retailers are “putting their customers ahead of profits.”

“If in fact you have a company, whether it be Target or any other, that is not making the investment in their security process to ensure that what happened to Target doesn’t happen, then you have to question why a company would not do that,” he said. “You have to question that they’re unwilling to make the investments necessary because they’re driven more by the bottom line than having a system that would secure all their consumers.”